A system of vegetables : according to their classes, orders, genera, species, with their characters and differences (1782)
Author: Linné, Carl von, 1707-1778; John Adams Library (Boston Public Library) BRL; Linné, Carl von, 1741-1783; Elmgren, Johan; Adams, John, 1735-1826, former owner
Volume: 1
Subject: Plants; Plant names, Popular -- Great Britain; Plants; Botany
Publisher: Lichfield : Printed by John Jackson, for Leigh and Sotheby ...
Year: 1782
Possible copyright status: NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
Language: English
Call number: 39999053070916
Digitizing sponsor: Sloan Foundation
Book contributor: John Adams Library at the Boston Public Library
Collection: johnadamsBPL; bostonpubliclibrary; americana
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Each plate accompanied by leaf of descriptive letterpress. Translation of: Systema vegetabilium. "Botanical terms and definitions" [tr. from the thesis of Dr. Elmgren] v. 1, p. [xiii]-xl. Includes: 'An alphabetical catalogue of English and Scotch names of plants' with a separate t.p. dated 1784, [30] p. at end of v. 2.
John Adams Library copy transferred from the supervisors of the Temple and School Fund. Quincy, Mass., 1894
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